From USA Today:
Need a job?
Move to Texas.
Finding work may not be quite that simple, but it sure seems that way. While the nation’s job growth has limped along since the economic recovery began two years ago, the Lone Star State is enlarging payrolls in Texas-size fashion.
From June 2009 to June 2011 the state added 262,000 jobs, or half the USA’s 524,000 payroll gains, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Even by a more conservative estimate that omits states with net job losses, Texas’ advances make up 30% of the 1 million additions in the 34 states with net growth…
Low taxes, rational regulations, business-friendly environment…presto!, economic growth. This isn’t rocket science – but it is well beyond any Democrat’s comprehension.
If Perry does decide to run, he certainly has a better economic record than Obama to run on.
Blogs For Victory 
I dont think al-O chimpy will run un opposed, I fully expect to see hitlery raise her UGLY serpent head again.
It will really be interesting to see how things shake out if Perry gets in. I think it hurts Bachmann, and definitely puts pressure on Romney.
Cluster,
I think it might doom Romney – here we’d have a successful, multi-term governor (thus outdoing Romney with his one term and refusal to run again) who never signed on to Obamacare-lite at the State level while at the same time having a lot of appeal to both social and fiscal conservatives…and a bit of a strong libertarian streak with his “10th Amendment” view of things like gay marriage. Perry might wind up an unstoppable juggernaught.
But I’m not entirely sold on him – heck, I’m not sold on anyone, just now. Right now, I’m just turning my own philosophical screws in a more and more Distributist manner…and demanding that conservatism be the revolutionary movement it must be. I don’t want us conserving liberalism … which is mostly what conservatives have done over the past few decades. Liberals propose and press some new disintegration of Christian and republican civilization, conservatives come along later and insist that this is what we keep and let’s stop the latest liberal innovation. I want a revolution…I want our old, Judeo-Christian civilization and I want us to be a constitutional, democratically governed republic. And this means I want someone who sees and understands this.
So far, the people coming closest to this ideal of Rick Santorum, Herman Cain, Michelle Bachman and Tim Pawlenty. We’ll see what comes out of it all…
This is what comes of it.
http://frank-schaeffer.blogspot.com/2011/07/christian-terror-in-norway-i-predicted.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3_DEp–J8c
“Brevik, the Norwegian mass murderer of non-Muslims, is an isolated monster with no Christian religious affiliation whatsoever.”
Mitch,
Have you looked in to the loon’s manifesto? I did. While not wanting to read all 1,500+ pages, I did some searching. What I did not find was any match to “I am Christian”; “I believe in Jesus”; “I am Catholic”; “I am Protestant”; “I believe in God”; “Christian supremacy”; “Christians are better”…There is nothing in it which indicates that he believes he was fighting for Christianity or felt himself as a Crusader for Christ.
So, if you want to keep believing that this guy was some sort of Christian extremist, that is your right…but you will be known as a liar if you do.
You have to excuse mitchie-the-kid, he hangs out at the Pitchfork, perhaps toooooooo long. They regurgitated the same nonsense on their pathetic excuse of a “blog” and here just recently.
AMEN! Perry is the man of the hour.
States with the highest percentage of workers earning at or below minimum wage:
Texas: 9.5 percent, 550,000 workers
Mississippi: 9.5 percent, 63,000
Alabama: 9.3 percent, 106,000
West Virginia: 9.3 percent, 40,000
Louisiana: 8.9 percent, 87,000
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
bardolf,
And who gets paid at or below minimum wage? Youthful workers and illegal immigrants…of which Texas has a large amount; the youthful workers because Texans still have hope and thus still have kids, the illegals because the government allows them to flood across the border.
And no matter how you slice it, having a job is better than being a dependent serf of the State. In Texas, people work – in California, people loaf…
A lot service industry people who receive tips, also work for below minimum wage, but obviously do much better than that when you factor in their tip income. Leave it to a liberal to tell half the story.
Need a job?
Move to Texas.
That’s how the thread begins.
@clueless and mark
I just added some statistics from the BLS about Texas without explanation. Thanks for giving the reasons for Texas having the largest percentage of minimum wage jobs in the country.
So if I need a job in Texas, I’ll either become an illegal alien, a youth or a service work depending on tips.
Don’t know why you needed to put down California just to build Texas up a little bit. I think the people of Californian are pretty hard working myself.
barstool,
So in sense what you’re saying is that California would rather not create jobs unless they are well paid jobs? That’s some great thinking there.
And you don’t always have to go get a “job” do you? There are plenty of entrepreneurial opportunities out there that can be started for pennies. Problem is though, those jobs don’t offer vacation time, sick pay or benefits. Of course if somebody is looking at a job strictly for those benefits, do you really want that person as an employee?
Clueless
Mark said the people in California loaf. I don’t live there, but my visits lead me to believe they are hard working. CALIFORNIA doesn’t create jobs, the people of California create jobs and in the rush to compete with the slave labor of China and Mexico they have fallen behind the great state of Texas.
I have every confidence in California and the rest of US to follow Texas’ example of providing honest work.
Bardolf,
You were trying to denigrate Texas…yeah, they got jobs, but they are just minimum wage jobs.
Two things wrong with your view:
1. Honest work is honorable no matter what it pays. The man or woman who gets up to go earn $7.25 is a better person than the man or woman lounging around watching TV on a bogus disability claim.
2. Minimum wage jobs are entry level jobs…they are the job you get when you’re just starting out in life, and those people who will take a minimum wage job are far better off than those who won’t because it doesn’t pay enough.
Mark
You looked into your heart to explain the BLS data and came up with “Low taxes, rational regulations, business-friendly environment…presto!”
I looked at BLS data and came up with an explanation. The difference between us is that I used facts. I was trying to denigrate your bogus claim and the BLS provided the data. You still haven’t made it clear when you will pick from the BLS or the New York Times etc. Maybe a blanket policy against citing the NYT for anything would have kept the Norwegian story off the blog and off this thread.
I agree with (1. Honest work is honorable. and 2 Minimum wage jobs …) but that doesn’t explain how to get out of the recession or why Perry would be a good replacement for Obama. It just dodges the issue.
Is it reasonable to convert one $15 per hour job to 2 minimum wage jobs to say another person is employed? Does Perry want to tour the country promising minimum wage/honorable jobs for all Americans?
i have to say that perry does have a good record. he makes me wish that palin had stayed governor for more than two years. maybe she wouldn’t have had a record like perry’s, but she would have more to talk about as well as much more skill handling the media.
the hyenas, wolves, and full force of the communist rats were not unleashed against Perry as they were against Palin
Agreed. No candidate has ever been treated like Sarah Palin and her family were! But, I give her and the Palin Family an A+ for the courage it took to stand straight and tall through it all.
I have a feeling Perry could handle the media abuse better than Palin.
Mitch,
Do you remember when Hassan shot up and killed all the soldiers at Ft Hood, and the media did not want to “rush to judgement” on his ties to radical Islam? Despite a lot of evidence in favor of that? Do you remember that?
Well then, why would the media rush to label this guy a christian radical? When all the evidence does not support that. Did he belong to a church? Does he have any past record of radical christian views? Nothing has been offered up so far, but I do appreciate you showing your true extremist colors by “rushing to judgement” on this.
Bmitch
ever hear of BLOW BACK?
people will react to barbarism with the likes, Im surprised it took so long to happen.
Dozens of Christian humanitarian workers have been
beheaded by Somali Islamists in the past two years, including
this man, but it is thousands of Muslims who starve as a result.
Islam’s Latest Contributions to Peace
“Mohammed is God’s apostle. Those who follow him are ruthless
to the unbelievers but merciful to one another” Quran 48:29
2011.07.25 (Helmand, Afghanistan) – Two young boys are taken out by a Taliban landmine.
2011.07.25 (Yala, Thailand) – Teachers are the targets of a bomb attack by Muslim ‘insurgents’.
2011.07.24 (Zarqa, Jordan) – A 35-year-old woman is murdered by her brother for having sex outside of marriage.
2011.07.24 (Aden, Yemen) – An al-Qaeda suicide car bomber sends nine local security personnel to Allah.
2011.07.24 (Naushki, Pakistan) – Sectarian Jihadis open fire outside a mosque, taking down five laborers.
2011.07.23 (Maiduguri, Nigeria) – At least eight people are blown to bits by Boko Haram bombers at a market.
http://thereligionofpeace.com/
Well, there you have it. This guy killed white teenagers but it was in retaliation for the killings by Islamists. Seems to me he picked the wrong targets. But what do you expect from Neo, the retarded offspring of B4V.
cluster
Did he belong to a church? Does he have any past record of radical christian views?
he COULD have belonged to O bomanation’s “church” right up wright and Obama’s alley.
Bmitch
non muslem = 78
muslems MILLIONS
a Loooooong way just to catch up. 🙂
Deleted – Off Topic.
Bmitch
is that U?
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/alleged-anti-tea-party-protesters-wild-rant-chides-sell-out-blacks-says-only-whites-can-be-racists/
It wasn’t off topic and you know it Mark. You’re a coward because when the truth smacks you in the face you run away like a scared rabbit.
He killed white, christian teenagers. Not dark skinned Muslims. But he did it because he hated Muslims. Another example of Neo’s mastery of logic.
Mitch,
It is off topic – but up above I replied to you and you are free to respond to that…but this thread is about American politics, not Norwegian mass murderers.
The truth doesn’t matter to mitch. He has his rightwing boogey man now. Every topic is now going to be “Anders Breivik” did it.
Where is the media on this. After that lougner thing in az, the lsm knew with in days he was no right winger. Where is breiviks history? Where are the interviews with people who knew him? Where is everything? Anyone else smell a rat in the house?
GMB
More left wing hysterics and their devilish anti Christian attacks.
Liberal Theologian Blames Christianity and Conservatism For Oslo Violence
Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite
Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, a senior fellow at the left-wing Center for American Progress and a board member for Faith in Public Life (a progressive, religious organization), believes that Christianity — and right-leaning political beliefs — are responsible for the tragic Oslo rampage.
Funny though mention of
911,
Ft Hood,
John Allen Muhammad –
Imagine that!!!
There can be an argument about Breivik being/not being a Christian. We will see if e.g. he regularly attended a church etc. I doubt he did but I am willing to be wrong.
There can be no argument that he killed and planned to kill members and youth belonging to the Labour party of Norway which is a center-Left organization. There can be no argument that he was anti-Muslim and anti-multiculturalism. He believed that the Left wing was brainwashing the people of Norway and that the young ‘roots’ of the tree which PERMITTED multiculturalism needed to be cut.
baldork
There can be no argument that he was anti-Muslim and anti-multiculturalism. He believed that the Left wing was brainwashing the people of Norway and that the young ‘roots’ of the tree which PERMITTED multiculturalism needed to be cut.
and your point?
he was a mass murderer period.
Who is saying that Bardolf? The media? It is not like they have anything to gain right? Breiviks manifisto? You mean the the manifesto plagerized from the unibomber with a few words changed?
I want concrete solid evidence before I make a judgement here.
There already rumors that the man belonged to a sweedish neo-nazi party.
That man may be a right winger for all I know. I repudiate and reject everything he did. He did not do it my name or the name of anyone else I know.
Be kind of nice if the lefties would reject thier terrorist. Aint gonna happen though.
GMB
The media would like everything to fit into a nice box, but reality is more complicated. Neo-nazi in Sweden is essentially an anti-immigrant campaign. There is a type of panic that the culture of Norway or Sweden or France etc. will be lost in a few generations (to the looters) as the locals are having fewer children than the immigrants.
People everywhere would like to hire immigrant groups for low wages for jobs they would not take themselves and complain that said group is ruining the country. Meat packing is a great example of a job that should be paid well considering the dangers involved. Removing the illegal supply of labor would drive up the price of meat by a few cents which people don’t want.
Question: If unemployment in the US was 2% and there was a desire to hire inexpensive workers to take care of gardens/elderly/whatever do you think illegal immigration would be an issue?
Bardolf, Play a game here. Say you are that cop. You either wait for permission to take a boat and let people die or you take the baot and go. I know what I would do.
GMB
Play the ‘impossible’ game that you don’t know what is going on other than that there is an emergency on the island. After the 3rd hijacked plane on 9/11 the people on the plane in Pennsylvania understood and a few took action.
I don’t want to put myself into second guessing a police officer who will spend the rest of his life knowing his actions or inaction is linked to the deaths of numerous teenagers. In fact even what I have read is 3rd hand at best and might be journalists looking for ‘an explanation’ or someone else to blame beyond the killer.
We need to be modest instead of proclaiming the chickens have come home to roost in Norway or the cops are incompetent etc.
Where is breiviks history? Where are the interviews with people who knew him? Where is everything? Anyone else smell a rat in the house?
I smell a lot more than a rat. The first question I’d like to see answered is how one guy could kill that many people in such a short period of time, and why it took the police an hour and a half to respond.
@Spook
There is no conspiracy. The bombing in Oslo distracted a lot of resources that way. The island where he killed the youth is inaccessible except by boat/helicopter and there was a big delay due to the bombing. One could argue there was some incompetence a la Katrina in Louisiana but nothing else. The local police were reluctant e.g. to requisition civilian boats to get the island and waited for federal support.
Norway thinks of itself as an extremely peaceful country (Nobel Peace Prize country) and so the attack was completely unexpected and hence the delay. There is no conspiracy just like Michael Moore was wrong about Bush finishing the children’s book during the 9/11 attacks. The guy was dresses as a police officer and had assault weapons. During the shock of the bombing most teenagers ‘trusted’ the police officer.
There are of course a lot of conspiracies floating around Europe. A second gunman theory is in play but the police have pretty much ruled it out. The killer saved 300,000 Euro over 6 years and planned the massacre in detail. I think the unabomber could have done similarly if he was willing to be caught right away instead of being found out by the off chance his brother would recognize his writing patterns and turn him into the police.
So you are going to let kids die because you dont want to take a civilian boat? Yeah I agree with that. I mean whats the life of some kid worth compared to taking a boat without permission.
GMB
As I said similar things happened in Louisiana. There were plenty of buses to evacuate people but the federal/state/local government couldn’t somehow manage to clear the needed hurdles and they had 2 days warning not 60 minutes.
GMB
kind of like how the left ignores 90% of the most prolific cereal killers were homosexuals.
TENS of MILLIONS MURDERED by islam world wide, maniacal calls for the total annihilation of Israel as recent as yesterday……..lefty crickets.
some LOON goes on a rampage, the left goes nuts against Christianity.
the war is near.
Neo
It is serial killer not cereal killer.
PS- no war is near
baldork
PS- no war is near
really???
check the link watch the video.
neocon1 July 26, 2011 at 6:43 pm #
It is serial killer not cereal killer.
Damn and I threw all mine (cereal) away to be safe……..:)
neocon1 July 26, 2011 at 6:56 pm #
GMB
kind of like how the left ignores 90% of the most prolific cereal killers were homosexuals.”
Kind of like how you ignore how many of them are Christian.
http://home.comcast.net/~pobrien48/serial_killers.htm
catspuke
BS
sitting in a pew does not make a person a Christian……for example Obama and you.
there was NOTHING Christian about them, they were homosexual predators attempting to blend in.
kind of like killer tiller.
Neo,
“BS
sitting in a pew does not make a person a Christian”
Which is why I don’t consider you a Christian.
catspuke
you couldn’t know since you arent one.
Actually I am. Sorry you aren’t.
catspuke
where? in a “church” like wrights?
people who believe in the murdering of babies, sodomy, looting ones pockets through marxism are not Christians no matter you huff and puff that you are.
Bmitch needs to begone…
you bright
You’re wrong as usual.
get lost jr college “teacher” or better yet get a REAL JOB
Neoconehead
Someone has to keep you from killing Frosted Flakes, Captain Crunch and all the rest.
Why the putdowns on the JUCO system BTW?
baldork
just busting ya…nothing personal…..keep up the good work.
REAL teachers are worth their weight in gold.
lefty ideologues not so
baldork
frosted flakes have a man eating tiger on them.
frosted “Flakes” some “pirate” in loafers and tights
Verrrrrry scary!!!!
correction
capn crunch, some “pirate” in loafers and tights
I personaly hate that count chocula guy. I finished him off this morning. Darn sugary treats anyway 😦
GMB
So you told me about your diabetes and now you’re eating sugary cereal? Don’t make me go all nanny-state Bloomberg on you.
@Neo
Don’t forget the 89mg of aspirin for the heart, we don’t want any blockage.
@Mark
When the heck is your book going to be ready?
@Count
Stop smoking but keep up the scotch.
@Spook
Congrats on having the daughter move out. Stop doom and glooming.
@Casper
Turn the other cheek and pray Neo sees the light.
@Tired and Thomas
Have a beer in London!
baldork
darkness hides from the light.
catspuke goes under the bed when I am around.
baldork
take em every day, plus copious amounts of holy water every weekend.
bardolf,
Been rather busy lately, but the real press to get it written will start in August and finish in September when I have some time off from work.
Don’t fret, it will get done – and it will be a very good book which is absolutely certain to make every last person on earth, by turns, delighted and outraged.
Interesting that a lot of the jobs added in Texas were government jobs.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903999904576470232177476242.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
How dare you go on topic!! Once a thread has been hijacked…it stays hijacked..:)
Could you paraphrase that link please.. I just dont subscribe to anything.
🙂
GMB,
“Texas has enjoyed the most robust economy in the U.S. during Mr. Perry’s decade as governor, which is one reason his potential candidacy is attracting national attention. The Lone Star State gained more than a million jobs since the end of 2000, while the U.S. has lost almost 1.5 million, according data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
About 300,000 of the new Texas jobs were in government. Well over half of them, fueled by the surging population, were at public schools. Employment in the state’s public sector has jumped 19% since 2000, compared with a 9% rise in the private sector. ”
It also goes on to say how many of those jobs will be cut in the next year. There is lots of other information. in the article.
The article says that more than two-thirds of the new jobs in Texas are in the private sector and less than one-third in government as opposed to the national average which is the opposite.
It goes on to say that half of the government jobs have been created by the surging population in such areas as public education.
Taly d’Haricots (@Count_dHaricots),
The article says a lot of things which is why I linked to it rather than selectively quote it.
aw camon count, dont rain on catspuke’s ignorance.
after all he IS a “teacher”???
Ok Caper, now that the data is understood, was there another point you wanted to make other than about one third of the jobs were government sector jobs?
count
love catpukes “statistics”
19% in public sector
9% in private
19% of 10,000 is far less than 9% of 10,000,000
catspuke “teacher” for dummies. (mannequins)
Its just selective analysis; in a two car race one finishes in second place while the other is next to last.
“Green Mountain Boy July 26, 2011 at 7:57 pm #
Ok Caper, now that the data is understood, was there another point you wanted to make other than about one third of the jobs were government sector jobs?”
Just wanting to make sure all the facts are out there. How you interpret them is up to you.
and Casper certainly wasn’t trying to imply anything about those “facts” when he wrote “Interesting that a lot of the jobs added in Texas were government jobs.” instead of “more twice as many private sector jobs as government jobs were created in Texas”
But, you decide.
count
catspuke thinks he is “debating” with his 7th graders where he appears to be smart.
I like the car analogy LOL
Well Casper, as a solid supporter of the 10th amendment, I believe that is Texas’s right to create as many state jobs as they wish. Just as it is thier right to end those jobs as they wish.
GMB
correct, but that was not catspukes smarmy intent. we all know his circular BS. and where he is going with it.
Taly d’Haricots (@Count_dHaricots),
I could have just copied and pasted the parts of the article that supported my position like neo does. Instead I chose to link to the entire article.
catspuke
learn from your mistakes grasshopper.
http://www.salon.com/news/global_post/index.html?story=/news/feature/2011/07/27/obama_debt_ceiling_blame
Let’s recall that when Bush came to office in 2001, the government’s budget was in the black. Washington was actually paying down the national debt. Back then, the Congressional Budget Office projected that America would have amassed a war chest of more than $2 trillion by this year — money that could be used to strengthen the country or provide for baby boomers’ retirement. But the Bush administration, and Karl Rove chief among them, wanted to return that projected surplus back to the people, and especially to the wealthy.
Bush’s tax cuts — along with a rapid increase in defense spending, a prescription drug plan for the elderly and other big-government policies — saddled the country with some $8 trillion in publicly-held debt by 2009 (the current figure has risen to $10.4 trillion, according to the Washington Post, not including several trillion dollars the government effectively owes itself). A separate analysis by the NY Times tallies Bush’s contribution to the debt at $5.07 trillion, and Obama’s (including projections through 2017) at $1.44 trillion.
Incidentally, estimates of the stimulus’ contribution run between $711 billion (the NY Times) and $830 billion (Congressional Budget Office). While not a small number, it’s a fraction of the debt problem, and about half of what the US has spent on wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Moreover, tarring Obama for spending a fortune to restore the economy conveniently ignores the fact that the Great Recession was hatched on Bush’s watch, not Obama’s. Likewise, no one bothers to mention that the financial meltdown has forced the government to shell out about $400 billion in unemployment benefits over the past few years — a problem that Obama clearly inherited.
Of all the policies that have added to America’s debt, the Bush tax
cuts are the single largest contributor, according to the Pew Fiscal Analysis Initiative. Looked at from another angle, unless lawmakers raise taxes on the wealthy, there’s no choice but to borrow more (which is clearly not popular) or to cut entitlements such as Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security. Many economists (Feldstein included) agree that to get the US economy moving again, people and businesses need to spend more money. The question is, who’s more likely to do that, a senior citizen who needs every dollar in her paycheck to make ends meet, or a family that already earns more than $250,000 a year?
Nor is it clear that more tax cutting would help business. US corporations are already sitting on some $2 trillion in cash, according to the Federal Reserve. Relative to the size of their assets, that’s a bigger pile of cash than they’ve held any time since 1959. Could it really be that the threat of higher taxes on hedge fund managers and other top earners are what’s keeping that money on the sidelines?
scummy
booooosh
booooosh
booooosh
and a whole lot of boooooshit
NEXT?
scummy
like you = simple
CUT SPENDING…..PERIOD!!
Sunny,
So you’re saying that following the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003, federal revenue from individual income taxes went down?